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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






2. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






3. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






4. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






5. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






6. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






7. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






8. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






9. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






10. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






11. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






12. The main character of a literary work.






13. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






14. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






15. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






16. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






17. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






18. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






19. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






20. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






21. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






22. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






23. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






24. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






25. The time and place of a story or play.






26. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






27. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






28. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






29. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






30. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






31. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






32. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






33. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






34. The selection of words in a literary work.






35. A strong pause within a line.






36. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






37. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






38. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






39. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






40. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






41. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






42. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






43. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






44. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






45. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






46. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






47. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






48. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






49. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






50. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.